Salesforce mainly provides the below three types of Licenses:
- User License: The user license specifies which feature or functionality a user can access on salesforce. Each user must have one license. ...
- Feature License The feature license authorizes the users to access additional features available in the salesforce that are not included in their user license, e.g., Marketing or WDC. ...
- Permission Set License
- Standard User Licenses.
- Chatter User Licenses.
- Experience Cloud User Licenses.
- Service Cloud Portal User Licenses.
- Sites and Site.com User Licenses.
- Authenticated Website User Licenses.
How much does Salesforce cost per license?
Salesforce Cost for Platform
- All Employee App Starter features included
- Custom app development – 110 objects per user
- App development with Lightning
- Customizable Reports and Dashboards
- Assets and work orders
- Employee Cases
- Native Collaboration
- Salesforce Identity
- Integration via real-time APIs
What are the different types of Salesforce licenses?
- User Licences.
- Feature Licences.
- Permission Set Licences.
How do I log into Salesforce?
How do I access Salesforce for the first time?
- Check your email for your login information.
- Click the link provided in the email. The link logs you in to the site automatically.
- The site prompts you to set a password and choose a security question and answer to verify your identity in case you forget your password.
How expensive is Salesforce?
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How many licenses does Salesforce have?
Required EditionsLicense TypeAvailable inSalesforceAll editionsKnowledge Only UserEnterprise, Unlimited, and Performance EditionsIdentity OnlyEnterprise, Unlimited, Performance, and Developer Editions Ten free Identity user licenses are included with each new Developer Edition org.2 more rows
What does Salesforce Platform license include?
Platform licenses include Accounts, Contacts and Reports as well as the automation tools that you know and love (e.g., Process Builder, Flow and Apex). They also include standard individual and mass emailing functionality. For a more complete breakdown you can also see this Salesforce Help article.
What is difference between Salesforce license and platform license?
Salesforce licenses are designed for users who require full access to standard CRM and Force.com AppExchange apps. CRM apps are anything that requires access to Standard Objects like... Salesforce Platform licenses are designed for users who only need access to custom apps, and NOT the standard CRM functionality.
What are the four license in service cloud?
Standard User Licenses. Sites and Site.com User Licenses. Service Cloud Portal User Licenses. Authenticated Website User Licenses.
Salesforce Licenses – Recap
As a recap, here are the links to all the main Enterprise licenses types, including a rather handy PDF specification/comparison sheet – just click “download the full comparison sheet” on the relevant page:
What are Platform Licenses?
Platform Starter and Platform Plus licenses offer the standard Salesforce functionality you’ve come to know and love. However, the range of standard objects and the number of custom objects are severely curtailed – e.g., barely anything sales or service-related.
Important Tips!
Contract restrictions – recreating standard objects. Salesforce is extremely clear about this. If you copy certain standard features using custom techniques, then you must pay for those standard features. The main example is Opportunities and recreating the functionality contained therein to save on cost.
Changing Salesforce Licenses
Sometimes you’ll see references to “Salesforce licenses”, which are Sales Cloud, Service Cloud or a combination thereof and sometimes to “Salesforce Platform licenses” which are the Platform Starter and Platform Plus licenses. In practical terms there’s no difference – both types have the same standard interface.
Best Practice
Keep your profiles very “bare bones” if you can, with only a few (or zero) objects. Then add in the permissions you require via permission sets (or permission set groups of course) – this enables users with different licenses to share the same permission sets.
Summary
There’s a lot of information to take in about Salesforce licenses and a lot of options. The time spent to work out your use case could have a very high ROI and unlock Salesforce for more areas of your business.
Identity Only License
Purchase the Identity Only license when you need extra licenses for employees to access only identity services, such as single sign-on (SSO). For example, some of your employees don’t need access to all the solutions included with a Salesforce license.
External Identity License
Salesforce Customer Identity is available when you purchase the External Identity license . This license applies to Experience Cloud users who don’t already have a community license. These users are typically consumers of your business, such as customers, prospective customers, patients, partners, and dealers.
Identity Verification Credits Add-On License
Customers of mobile-first identity receive email verification for free. You can also offer mobile verification via text message for an extra cost. SMS messaging requires the Identity Verification Credits add-on license. Purchasing the license gives your org a predetermined number of SMS messages for mobile identity verification.
What is Salesforce license?
A Salesforce license, or more precisely, a license definition, is a metadata description of the Salesforce features and services that are available to your org. License definitions describe functionality for your org as a whole and for individual users in your org. A license itself is the specific agreement between Salesforce ...
What is a permission set license?
Permission set license. A license that defines user-level functionality, which can be assigned to supplement the functionality in a user license. A user can be assigned multiple permission set licenses. Note that a permission set license is different from a permission set, defined in the next unit.
What is Salesforce provisioning?
Provisioning is the process that Salesforce administers to activate your licenses and enable functionality in your org. When your org is provisioned, it’s like a tenant shaking hands with the property manager, making the initial lease payment, and getting the office keys.
How many editions does an org have?
Each org has at least one edition, which provides all the functionality needed to activate the org. An edition includes at least one platform license, and can contain one or more user licenses (or no user licenses). An org may have more than one edition, but all editions must be for the same level.
How many licenses does an org admin have?
As an org admin, you assign each user one user license, based on the user’s role. The user license determines the functionality that the user can access. An edition or add-on can contain multiple types of user licenses, depending on the product.
Does Salesforce have user licenses?
Some Salesforce products do not provide user licenses or permission set licenses. For example, Heroku, the application development environment, creates platform licenses but no user licenses, because its products define functionality at the platform (org) level but not the user level.
Can you have multiple permissions in Salesforce?
Many Salesforce products, such as Sales Cloud and Service Cloud, also include permission set licenses. Like user licenses, permission set licenses define user-level features. But while a user can have only one user license, the user can be assigned multiple permission set licenses. As an admin, you can assign permission set licenses to a user ...
About Salesforce Licenses
Types of Salesforce Licenses
- Accessing the general Salesforce features requires users to own the basic/standard User license. The other types of licenses include Feature licenses and Permission set licenses. Further, Salesforce offers usage-based entitlements to enable and restrict access to users over a specific period. The following are the types of Salesforce licenses avail...
Understanding User Licenses
- The numerous Salesforce features call for equally numerous licenses to allow specific access. Here are the sub-types of User licenses and a brief description of each.
in Conclusion
- With the various licenses a user can get assigned, keeping track of them is also made just as simple. The Lightning Usage application allows you to track active user permissions through the Active Licenses tab. It can get challenging to understand and keep in mind the various permissions when assigning to a user. Although, optimally utilizing the permission authority help…
Salesforce Licenses – Recap
- As a recap, here are the links to all the main Enterprise licenses types, including a rather handy PDF specification/comparison sheet– just click “download the full comparison sheet” on the relevant page: 1. Sales Cloud 2. Service Cloud 3. Sales and Service Cloud(a combination of the two main “cloud” licenses; occasionally referred to as “CRM Light...
What Are Platform Licenses?
- Platform Starter and Platform Plus licenses offer the standard Salesforce functionality you’ve come to know and love. However, the range of standard objects and the number of custom objects are severely curtailed – e.g., barely anything sales or service-related. Here are some examples of where the Platform licenses could be suitable: 1. Your business uses Managed Pac…
Important Tips!
- Contract restrictions – recreating standard objects. Salesforce is extremely clear about this. If you copy certain standard features using custom techniques, then you must pay for those standard fe...
- Features do change over time– you can check the date at the top of this article for when it was last updated! e.g., a license may have a certain limitation at one point in time that may be cha…
- Contract restrictions – recreating standard objects. Salesforce is extremely clear about this. If you copy certain standard features using custom techniques, then you must pay for those standard fe...
- Features do change over time– you can check the date at the top of this article for when it was last updated! e.g., a license may have a certain limitation at one point in time that may be changed...
- If you’re not sure, test it in a sandbox. You can ask your Salesforce Account Executive to get (demo) licenses enabled.
- When you change a user’s license (e.g., between “Salesforce” and “Salesforce Platform”, as we’ll see later on) all the existing Permission Sets are removed from that user. You can just r…
Changing Salesforce Licenses
- Sometimes you’ll see references to “Salesforce licenses”, which are Sales Cloud, Service Cloud or a combination thereof and sometimes to “Salesforce Platform licenses” which are the Platform Starter and Platform Plus licenses. In practical terms there’s no difference – both types have the same standard interface. It’s just a matter of a couple of clicks to transfer users between one an…
Best Practice
- Keep your profiles very “bare bones” if you can, with only a few (or zero) objects. Then add in the permissions you require via permission sets (or permission set groups of course)– this enables users with different licenses to share the same permission sets. It reduces the number of profiles you need keeping things relatively easy to maintain going forward as you only need to update pe…
Summary
- There’s a lot of information to take in about Salesforce licenses and a lot of options. The time spent to work out your use case could have a very high ROI and unlock Salesforce for more areas of your business. Further reading: 1. Salesforce Licensing – Understand How Licenses Work (Trailhead) 2. A text version of the above diagram, which summarises the various features availa…